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<p>Louis Becke's 'The Tapu of Banderah' is an enthralling narrative set in the exotic and perilous waters of Melanesia. The term 'tapu', from Polynesian culture, alluding to sacredness and prohibition, forms a central motif in the story which charts the harrowing journey of English and German voyagers navigating to the shadowed shores of Mayou, in south-east New Guinea. Becke's prose, soaked with the salt and storm of the sea, carries readers int...Seguir leyendo